About Me

Thursday, August 28, 2014

It's Friday again! What better way to start of the day than to have your favorite breakfast food?

I don't really have a favorite breakfast food. It's a game of roulette in my brain minutes before I wake up and whatever food on the list gets chosen will be The Favored Breakfast of The Day.

Today's Favored Breakfast of The Day: Over peppered sunny side up egg and cheese sandwich

I could only capture my over peppered (I love pepper) egg because I was so hungry I ate my sandwich immediately after I assembled it. (You're not really missing out much, it didn't look that great anyway. Neither does my egg)

Other than sunny side egg and cheese sandwich, I love ICE-CREAM, but I love HOMEMADE ICE-CREAM even more!

Do I even need to tell you how much more delicious homemade ice-cream is compared to commercially made ones? OF COURSE NOT!

However, I found this ice-cream pre-mix in my local baking shop and I was really mindblown...I never knew they had such things, but I realised that this is probably how ice-cream is made commercially as an afterthought. Pretty disappointing, I know.

This pre-mix just lost it'smindblowing magic

Despite the fact that this recipe only calls for two ingredients (Full cream milk and the ice-cream mix), It requires too much fancy baking equipment. Weighing out ingredients like milk in grams....seriously? Come on!

It was a tad bit too sweet, so I added in some green tea powder to neutralize the sweetness that's why it looks green.The flavour being too sweet would be another drawback about using ice-cream mix

Before

After

I let it soften a bit before transfering to a freezer box for storing

Scoop, serve and enjoy!

P.s It's not as good as I thought it would be, I should expect that since it is a pre-mix. Still, this feeling of unsatisfied-ness is just so annoying!

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

So a while ago I said something about a graduation post and here it is!

Like I mentioned an earlier post (click here) I've finally graduated with a degree at last!

I am no longer a dishonor to my family! :')

The Not so Secret Confession Time:

1. I hate having photos taken of me

I should be awarded a Masters oflooking awkward in almost every picture

Exhibit A: Dat. Awkward. Grin.

However, there will be those RARE candid shots which actually look normal and not awkward, I could almost dare say, nice!

Exhibit B: Granny Shot, Captured by Andrew Mah

2. Before my graduation,
I used to get nightmares that the administrator in charge of the Results Portal
made a mistake. We get our results earlier than our graduation, online, so I
knew what my “grade” was.

I got nightmares that I did worse than stated on the Results Portal
quite frequently (Kiasu much? I think so! haha)

Fortunately, I did unbelievably well (HALLELUJAH!)
by God’s grace because it could not have been my own efforts (I mean, I’ve been
a dunce from the time I started kindergarten, real honest. My parents can attest
to the validity of my statement. (Sad but true)

3. I bought my graduation dress the day before my graduations (Because I’mfab like that~)

I was going to wear
something simple and plain, but my flighty friend, Sienna Newton Ho, was like:
NO! YOU HAVE TO WEAR A NICE DRESS!! (She just wants me to look good in the
photographs, God bless her soul, but I think I’m a lost cause)

No dress, no matter
how nice will save me from my awkward photo sickness:’)

Here are some pictures from my graduation that are not awkward

Not awkward...

...because I'm...

...not in it!

On a more serious note (get your tissue ready):

I thank God for always helping me through my whole life and especially during the tough times in uni (all those tears and sleepless nights!)

I would like to thank my parents for allowing and even encouraging me to enter University despite knowing what a dunce I really am and how expensive it is to send a child to university. Your support did not go unnoticed.

I thank my whole family (sister, uncle, aunty, cousin, etc) for supporting my choice of degree despite how unpopular and unrecognized my degree is (I studies Education in Special Needs) in Malaysia.

My classmates and friends, I love you guys! Uni life would not be the same without you!

All those surprise meal deliveries

Late night support helpline

Forcibly making me take a break because you know I'm gonna have a breakdown if I don't

Heart to heart sessions about our struggles and then encouraging each other

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

So, it's been a while since I last posted and... I would just like to say I'm really sorry for always being so inconsistant, but I SWEAR I ONLY DID IT FOR A GOOD CAUSE!!

So, "what is this good cause?" you ask me. The title says it all! Short story time!

Once upon a time in a far away land where the people lived in trees with wifi and cable tv, lived a young woman by the name of Asia Colion. She once valiantly vowed to update her blog as frequent as 3 days a week and kept her promise for a few months. She posted about food, fun, crafty shenanigans and a sprinkling of her daily life, but as time went by, she enrolled into a university to further improve her shallow and tiny mind.

As time went by, the number of her postings decreased and stopped altogether and she broke her promise. You must be thinking what an awful person she is to break a promise she had made, but the reasons on why she broke her promise was not known to the world. She was engaged in a battle, a battle too horrific to recount! A battle of mind and body with the darkest enemies of humankind!

Procrastination!

Alas! That was but only one major enemy! She battled against Priorities, Time Management, Stress, Academic Text, Unreasonable Assignments, The Nasty Lecturer (This one was a real tough one!), Insomnia and many others which were just as devastatingly evil. The constant assault of the evils wore her thin till she could no longer find inspiration to blog. The battle lasted for 3 years with no cease to the attacks, but at last she emerged from the battle victorious!

Full of remorse for breaking her promise, she has returned to blogging fearing that all is lost and that nobody would ever want to read her blog ever again and this time she will be facing even more devastating evils, Evils which she has never faced before: Work Life. She begs for forgiveness and hopes that everyone will understand the inconsistencies of her posts. She also invites everyone to follow her battles in the coming near future if they can bear with the inconsistencies.

So yeah, story of my life in a nutshell. I've graduated but I'll reserve that for another post!
To be honest, I really had a lot of fun writing this and I do hope you had fun reading it!